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Successful at everything else he ever attempted, Gizzi was used to being frustrated in a Harvard uniform. Freshman year he split time at quarterback with Columbo, and the next fall, he was asked to switch to Hanker, because of the Crimson's depth behind the center Gizzi says he felt "lost in the shuffle...
...Gizzi decided to switch back to quarterback this year and to complete with eight others for the starting job. He sat on the bench for the last few games, until the ineffectiveness of Columbo and an injury to Sophomore Brian White gave him a shot Gizzi played well enough against Dartmouth in relief to get a start against Princeton...
...Gizzi knew it was his one last chance to prove to Restic that he really could do the job. Leading the Crimson to a hard tough 28, 26 squeaker. Gizzi won the starting job. Now he is where he has wanted to be for the last four years, leading the Crimson into the 100th Yale game, and says if he had to do it over again, he's glad be chose New Haven over national television...
Whatever he does when he graduates, Gizzi knows what he doesn't want to do. "Two summers ago I worked on a G.M. assembly line. If I ever considered not finishing up my education, that job changed my mind," he recalls. "Then last summer in addition to studying for LSATs, I delivered oxygen for a surgical supply company. I saw some really sad things, people who didn't have much. It really makes you stop and think, and thank God for what you have. I know I never want to go into the surgical supply business...
...Gizzi hasn't been able to sit still in classes this week. "All I can think about is The Game," he says, although he claims he is not nervous. "I'll probably get nervous at the national anthem," he adds. "Though that will go away after I get rapped in the head once...